Tasaday

[ tah-suh-dahy ]

noun

, plural Ta·sa·days, (especially collectively) Ta·sa·day.

1. a member of a very small group of forest-dwelling people of southern Mindanao.

Example Sentences

Godolphin's Tasaday finished in third.

From BBC

Mechanized drumbeats, monotone or tuneless vocals and strictly bare-bones productions connect bands like Neon or 0010110000010011 to international counterparts like Suicide, Einstürzende Neubauten and Throbbing Gristle; there’s also post-punk guitar dissonance from Rats and Spirocheta Pergoli and repetition as provocation from l’Ultimo Arcano, Maurizio Bianchi and Tasaday.

From New York Times

Tasaday, the 9-10 jolly in the fillies' race, managed to get beaten after being allowed a soft lead.

From The Guardian

No savage seemed nobler--or more unreal--than the bare-bodied Tasaday, whom Elizalde introduced to the public in 1971.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sweet Tasaday tribesmen of the Philippines lived in a peaceful Stone Age dream until anthropologists and TV crews descended on them.

From Time Magazine Archive